Library

HURISA is the only organisation, besides the Department of Justice, with the collection of the Goldstone Commission of Inquiry completed in 1993. The library consists of a variety of materials, including a rich historical collection of the Goldstone Commission Reports. The reports provide the reader with the historical public violence that escalated throughout the country in the late 1980′s and early 1990 as a result of the National party government’s policy of apartheid. The collection is comprised of 47 reports which followed a public enquiry format and contains large recommendations. There are also newsletters, annual reports and research reports from other institutions including government, national human rights institutions’ books, law journal articles, magazines and other contemporary materials useful for research on human rights issues and popular topics, discussions, debates for academia, students, lectures, professors, government departments, non Governmental Organisations, Community Based Organisations and other organs of the Civil Society.

HURISA intends to keep its Library facility as an information centre of excellence for its users in furthering its objective of promoting human rights in South Africa and beyond. The South African historical archives, including institutions with similar objectives will be approached for linkages and collaborations in maintaining the facility with latest archiving and updating

Constitution of South Africa

Amid a recent uptick in violence in the Central African Republic (CAR), United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Saturday said he stood in solidarity with the crisis torn country and warned that attacks against defenseless civilians and UN ‘blue helmets’ may amount to war crimes.

United Nations Secretary-General António Gutteres condemned the killing of seven peacekeepers on Wednesday serving in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which is also confronting a lethal Ebola outbreak.

Africa’s crisis-torn Sahel region needs support from the international community “now more than ever,” the head of United Nations peacekeeping operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, told the Security Council on Thursday.

A range of international sanctions imposed against Eritrea nearly a decade ago, were unanimously lifted by the Security Council on Wednesday, four months after the signing of an historic peace agreement with Ethiopia in July.

Families in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are being supported by their government and the United Nations to protect the environment and build what the UN Development Programme calls “climate-resilient lives.”

With key national elections due next month in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), armed groups in the east of the country still threaten to derail the vote, the top United Nations official in the country told the Security Council on Tuesday.

To build a sustainable peace in Africa’s Sahel region, “urgent attention” is needed to mitigate the effects of climate change, and ensure that communities have access to sufficient opportunities, a joint meeting between the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and the UN Peacebuilding Commission highlighted on Tuesday.

Outer space and disaster response experts, on Monday, gathered at a United Nations forum in Bonn, Germany, to discuss how “big data” including social media, crowdsourcing and satellite imaging, can reduce the risk of natural disasters in Africa and support response efforts when they strike.